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In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
$14.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: General
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no ...Show more
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